Been hoping I wouldn't need to mod the Gog website. Oh well.

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UPDATE from GOG PR guy elcook:

"Thanks for your patience all! Wanted to let you know we haven't forgotten about the notifications system, and our team is on it. The feature should be back, in a better form, within the next few weeks. We need to add some finishing touches and test it thoroughly, so we can launch it properly on the website."

Guess we only have to wait out a few more weeks and then the notifications will be back. :D

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Voted. They said they'd fix it "eventually", but it has been close to four months now. Still, on June 29 elcook said that the notifications would be back "within the next few weeks"!
Fingers crossed!

I'm sure you've got a notification about it. Have you checked under the bed?

Since GOG is generally incredibly ineffective at fixing this forum, here is an idea on how we can do it ourselves.

1. Get a server capable of running Node.

I have one I can use for testing, but if we decide to fully go through with this, I'm not paying for a production one as a matter of principle. Fortunately it's only $5 with Digital Ocean so if a few of you pitch in I'll pay my share as well. Or someone can just donate theirs — we won't need much space and bandwidth.

2. Write a service, which will poll the site at certain intervals, open the relevant pages and check for updates. Should such updates be detected, it will email you a notification.

The Good: You get notifications.

The Bad: It'll be tied to your email, might occasionally have false positives and false negatives, depending on how easy it would be to actually detect relevant changes.

The Ugly: It will need your login and password. This means that despite the code being open source you will never feel entirely safe because whoever is running that server will (if they so desire) be able to access you info. Which is bad and not recommended. Also, since GOG doesn't provide any secure authentication methods, your credentials will have to be stored as plain text in order to supply them to GOG during login. And you will also need to disable that two-tier authentication for it to work. All that in mind, I would say this is actually worse than not having notifications.

TLDR: We can fix it ourselves and it will work, but it's a SUPREMELY bad idea security-wise.

Solution: Once the software is written it should be vetted by all of the forum's trustworthy software devs (and hopefully at least one GOG engineer) and then you will be able to run it yourself on your own server. That way only you will have access to it and nobody can steal your info. It will, however, involve setting up your own server, getting the software running and so on. So if you are not a technical person you'll probably find that this is not worth the benefits.

I've been holding off bumping this thread ever since elcook said we'd be getting notifications back soon but that was months ago. I'm confident that Gog will bring back our notifications but until then just keep voting guys. :)

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/bring_back_notifications_for_pm_and_forum_replies_to_the_website

edit: weird stuff happening with the url function for replies. Just posted the link to the Community Wishlist Post instead of using that function.

I'm caustically optimistic. o.O

At this point it does seem to me, that the missing update notifications are an intended measure to make the use of getting updates from the website as inconvienent as possible so that you cave in and use Galaxy. Well played GOG I use Steam now.

Let's face it, for an online game store it is a basic thing to have an update mechanism that notifies the user of updates. Since a lot of time has passed, there is no other conclusion than that this was intentional.

Well It is in testing right now. Only those who have opted into beta updates on Galaxy can use it, so it's not even offically released on Galaxy yet. Once testing is done it will roll out to everyone on both the website and Galaxy. There are still a few bugs so it could be a few weeks.

It does work pretty good though, overall one of the least buggy experiences I've seen from GOG.

And going to Steam to avoid using Galaxy... makes zero sense.